Sentences with phrase «as a child of»

He's a self - made billionaire, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks and a star of the hit ABC reality show «Shark Tank,» though he started out as the child of a blue - collar family from Pittsburgh.

As the child of immigrants, Hong says, this environment was one that he could relate to.

(Though as a child of the 1970s, I found that white Sedan de Villes with powder - blue velveteen seats were not my thing.)

It is common knowledge that it is a guarantee of the bible that Christ will give you the proof of the down payment or proof that He adopts you as a child of God and bound for heaven and eternal life.

What if my goal wasn't to win the game, but to leave people better than I found them — better loved, better experiencing their identity as a child of God, better equipped to love others?

Whether that's through God's Word, through prayer or through the encouragements of others around you, staking your claim as a child of God not only pushes the enemy back, but takes you closer to God.

Indeed, and once you've bought into that «Fall Of Man» crap it's a short, easy step to oppressing Jews as Christkillers and enslaving Africans as Children of Ham.

It would be utterly disgusting of me to generalize all people of faith as liars, corrupt theocrats and child abusers, so I won't... but I will not remain silent as the children of God pass judgment against others the way jesus told them not to.

Although, as a child of the 60's, I tend to reject any «system» which says that protest is futile (although knowing that getting their own way is what the powerful have always done), I see something here which might be a message for our times.

It speaks candidly to the Christian amid the messiness of day - to - day life; it honestly addresses the difficulties of discipleship, while reminding us of our dignity as children of God.

As a child of divorce I will spend the rest of my life trying to rise above that label and it will follow me wherever I go.

But my LDS faith teaches me to regard all people as children of God, equally beloved of God, with race not being an issue at all.

As a child of God, it is your right and your privilege — indeed, your responsibility!

That is, every human being is predestined to adoption as a child of God through Jesus Christ.

Even as children of God we still sucombe to the influences of our desires and will sin against God at times.

But, should I choose as a child of God to do so, I am making a dumb choice.

He was born and grew up in China, as a child of missionaries.

The author of 20 books, her passion is to encourage and empower women to walk in confidence as they grasp their true identity as children of God and co-heirs with Christ.

Yes, it is true that God made man for woman, but we humans who has been born for the short time we are here must not judge each other for our indifferences and beliefs; we must help each other dodge the evils of this world and come together as the children of God.

What will matter is that the thousands of children waiting for adoption be treated, in the words of the apostle Paul, as children of God.

Even the very early Christians could thus conceive themselves as children of the church rather than as its creators.

Only by loving our enemies and praying for them do we act as children of God.

Many had been baptized and taken into the Church as children of the saints.

Why can't we all acts as children of Christ...?

As children of the founders, they were in a position of responsibility and authority.

As a child of God it is part of my spiritual DNA to love others, even if I dislike the behavior.

If you have stepped out somewhere where you shouldn't have done then the conviction as a child of God will surely come but I tell you this, if Satan did not hold back on trying to kill the baby Jesus, and many children were slaughtered in that process, if he even thought he knew the scriptures so well he could try to deceive Jesus, and he did try then you can be sure that for every believer there is an adversary who would do anything to stop you from finding the forgiveness and grace of God that has the power to wash you clean of anything.

It is a relationship within which we are restored and grow to perfection as children of God with the eternal Son.

They must abide in Christ and following the guidance of the Spirit seek, as children of a righteous heavenly father, to be righteous like him.

As a child of God it is part of my spiritual DNA to love others, even if I dislike their behavior.

We are known and created as children of Adam and Eve, then chosen and called in Jesus through Mary within the network of sacramental relationships and pastoral vocations that form the Church.

It occurs only twice in the New Testament — here, and in Ephesians 1:6, where Paul writes that all Christians have been adopted as children of God through Jesus Christ and have been «blessed / graced» (same verb Luke uses with the root xaris).

As Christians, as children of God, we need to know that we are safe in his hands, and that no matter what, He loves us.

They can no longer find identity as a child of God, spouse, or parent, so their identity is found as pastor.

It is as high as a child of two.

The dangers of belief in the devil can be that one is tempted to demonize opponents, as, for example, when Christians have spoken of Jews as children of the devil.

There is no point being a slave to the lender as a child of God.

No, we are not perfect but we are representatives of Jesus, so we must behave as children of God.

Baptism asks parents to see their child at a disquieting, yet quieting, distance; that is, to accept it as a child of God.

It is by grace we are saved, and it is by grace we live as children of God every day.

They lived as children of their times, not perfectly wise or perfectly good, and not able fully to divest themselves of ideas that were prevalent in their day.

The former stresses man's dignity and greatness as the child of God made in the divine image while the latter stresses man's perpetual sinfulness and weakness.

After all, He knows a thing or two about facing a violent government system, turning unjust laws on their head and living as a child of God.

As children of God, we can set aside our hurts, methods and stereotypes.

All I can do as a child of Christ is offer up an alternative to your belief system.

As children of modernity, we are left to wonder what to do with the legacy of dream interpretation found in all great religious traditions.

Christianity has contributed much to the intellectual and moral basis of human rights, due to all humans being regarded as children of God, and hence endowed with inalienable rights.

As children of God, we are His ambassadors on earth.

More than right as such, the Bible from Genesis onwards emphasizes the obligations of humans, as responsible persons, to care for one's neighbour as a child of God, and also for nature.

Founded in an experience of transcendent order, the new settlements habitually slipped away from their high calling and fell into idolatry, as the children of Israel had done before them.